Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Michael Perry
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 >> >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware >> ii vmware-workstation6.5.0-110069 >> VMware Workstation >> ii xserver-

Re: Sunbird server?

2008-09-24 Thread Michael Perry
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:40:08 +0200, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:40:43AM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: >> >> I use the SunBirds (on Windows/Linux) and my girlfriend uses the gmail >> Calendars >> >> Is there any ways to sync the two together? I might be able to get her >> t

Re: Need an Etch compatible eSATA PCI card

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Perry
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:00:22 +0200, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a brand/model of eSATA card (PCI-Express, > or at least PCI) > that works with Etch? > > I'm having trouble finding documentation since almost everything focuses on > internal SATA and RAID. I don't need RAID

Re: Blog clients and the new Blogger Atom API

2007-03-31 Thread Michael Perry
to have better offline blog clients that compare with some of the windows ones like blogjet or wbloggar or ecto. Take care. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mikesplace.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cli for iso files

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Perry
> Thanks, > > Mark > > You could just use cdrecord for burning ISO images. Here's a hint or two: http://www.sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ The link has a whole bunch of command line goodness for doing a variety of stuff. -- Michael Perry | Do

Re: acroread on amd64

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Perry
lled mplayer, acroread, 32bit firefox, and others. A good starting point is: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356 One addition that I found out with the mount points is you probably will want to include /dev so sound will actually work. If you follow the leads in the articl

Re: Mind Mapping Tool

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Perry
interface since it seems to be very responsive and editing maps and levels of tasks seems pretty intuitive. I've not tried the others you named though. I have made an effort at finding a few different tools that correspond to project management and the combination of freemind, GanttProject

gnome 2.14, unstable, pdf files in nautilus

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Perry
PDF is somewhat hosed because the files most definitely are PDF and if I do a file on them they show up that way. Not the case for all PDFs definitely and I cannot pin down if there are certain conditions that make it happen in Nautilus. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Y

Re: Dell Inspiron 4000: Sarge 2.6 Compatibility ?

2006-03-14 Thread Michael Perry
at I always do Etch installs initially and then setup xorg to use the ATI driver. Then I upgrade to Sid each time. If you want to see my xorg.conf file, I could provide it if that would help. Its highly likely that the Linux on Laptops website may also help if you find a match for your laptop the

Re: OT: What wireless cards are well supported in Linux?

2006-02-19 Thread Michael Perry
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:00:14 +0100, Gnu-Raiz wrote: > >>Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Im using Asus WL-107G 54G cards here on Debian unstable with a >>2.6.15 >>kernel. The card uses the drivers from >>http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/in

Re: OT: What wireless cards are well supported in Linux?

2006-02-18 Thread Michael Perry
e either and its been compiling clean on this kernel. I could not get the latest rt2x00 drivers to work for some reason so I'm using the rt2500 driver from there. BTW, the cards cost about 30.00 each from newegg. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Branded Servers that support Debian GNU/Linux

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Perry
e also deployed a variety of Dell servers and have had no issues there at all. Last real issue I had was several years ago with Proliant Servers and a certain RAID card that caused us grief. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
ifplugd I believe or waproamd. I have not used those since my way is pretty much driven from a xterm and a few lines. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox Configuration

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
say what version of debian is running. I do this with debian unstable's firefox but I use a nightly build from mozilla for thunderbird and it all works for me. Also watch out for how the line wraps in your editor. It wraps here but it should be continuous when you enter it. -- Michael

Re: Debian and Wireless on an IBM Thinkpad

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Perry
tanzas. I've also used things like netenv, wifiswitch, and a few others. I just strive for the simplest way of doing things and this way seems pretty easy to me. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Connecting to net with Debian 3.0

2006-01-16 Thread Michael Perry
e. May have to read about some of the commands that can go into a ppp options file and see. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remote desktop and VPN

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Perry
That being said, openvpn is probably the easiest to use vpn solution I have found yet. At its simplest, using pre-shared static keys is a breeze and there are clients/servers for all the platforms including on windows from 2000 on up. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Y

Re: how to debug USB firmware loading?

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Perry
torage is loaded. There is also this little command line utility called lsusb which works very nicely and will list all the usb devices it finds. All my systems are self-compiled kernels running either 2.6.12 or later. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Imap

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Perry
with mbox folders with over a year of mail with no problems. It will also create the cur, new, tmp stuff for you. Dovecot does a nice job of scanning home directories and locating supported mailboxes and I've used it with fetchmail, spamassassin, postfix, procmail for quite awhile now. -- Micha

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-01 Thread Michael Perry
. I did not research that problem too much since I got frustrated with the quality and went to the linuxant drivers instead. My WRT runs the latest beta code from one of the contributos at hyperwrt.org but things work very nicely on a variety of wireless systems including my daught

Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-26 Thread Michael Perry
Robert D. Crawford wrote: > "Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >> Does anyone have any recommendations for the > >> simplest card to get working with Debian? > > > I think the easiest I have e

Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Perry
I would probably go with the orinoco classic gold card and the pci adaptor. -- Michael Perry | Do or do not. There is no try --Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMAP and Squirelmail.

2005-10-12 Thread Michael Perry
re requires one to run a script that configures it. I tend to use squirrelmail every so often from public computers like at tradeshows. Works pretty nicely for me with a minimum of stuff. Dovecot has to be one of the easiest setups I've seen. I've done cyrus and uw-imapd. I first did

Re: backup plan for home server

2005-10-01 Thread Michael Perry
ments, mp3s. I also save all my mail folders there. This approach works really well for me. The backup box is configured as a RAID1 array and I exported the ssh keys between them. So I have like 250g total for backups. When I want to go bigger, I'll probably just get a 4 port SATA cont

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-04 Thread Michael Perry
Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't know if its the debian way or not... But I usually just write an xinitrc in the users home directory which exec's the window manager that I want to run. Like exec wmaker If you are using GDM and not startx, I am not so sure. I don't

Re: VPN server recommendation

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Perry
ent/server setup for secure remote administration of windows boxes across the net. -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Perry
On Mon, 02 May 2005 07:09:04 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2005-05-02, Michael Perry penned: >> >> I've used a few before. Most recently, the iogear two port works >> very well for me with X running and switching between a XP Pro box >> and a Linux syste

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-01 Thread Michael Perry
ot support my mouse correctly. I've found the two port iogear at amazon for around 25.00 with shipping included. -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Perry
lists because I administer personal systems running unstable and servers running stable. I am interested in the wisdom of the lists regarding how debian-user and debian-laptop would be organized or re-arranged (if at all). -- Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda [EMAIL

Re: Realplayer Stop working for now reason...

2001-08-11 Thread Michael Perry
lder versions of xv, and php4 module loading in apache. Its been reported in debian's bug tracking system. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org

Re: Unusual filesystem/memory corruption

2001-08-11 Thread Michael Perry
, the /etc/fstab file corrupt, and on... I was also using hdparm. I re-installed and went to a 2.4.5 kernel with the via/southbridge ide driver. The system now runs happily with twin maxtor 40g ide drives on the 2.4.7 kernel with the via ide driver compiled in. -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org

Re: Mutt questions

2001-08-05 Thread Michael Perry
ith a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > One could choose slrn. I use mutt with clear aterm terminals, vim, and slrn. apt-gettable; but of course :) -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org

Re: GEFORCE 2 MX and LINUX

2001-08-02 Thread Michael Perry
the card under a 2.2.x kernel because when I did I suffered on this system with a lot of bus errors and X dumping core on me. Soon as I moved to the 2.4 kernel it all went away. The later nvidia drivers help a lot too. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.lnxpowered.org

Re: mp3 players?

2001-07-28 Thread Michael Perry
well as a 2.4.x kernel. If you want a gnome/gtk manager, check out pjbmanager. There is also one for kde. I don't use kde here so cannot testify to its abilities. PJBmanager works pretty well though. -- Michael Perry | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lnxpowered.org - hom

Re: Can`t start Mozilla

2001-07-24 Thread Michael Perry
as a browser and when I closed the mail application, it started opening normally again. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim no longer works?

2001-07-22 Thread Michael Perry
were you using? I use a pretty simple one like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eh in the address rewriting area. This rewrites the headers and envelope as I want it. You could also rewrite the headers using the email-addresses file in /etc/exim I believe. Try making my change and dropping me an email as a test. See if it works then. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboards

2001-07-21 Thread Michael Perry
Both running the 2.4.7 kernel with via patches enabled and compiled for the athlon chipset. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: EDITOR

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Perry
gracias > > Frans > > > > I like using joe for stuff. It also comes as jstar which is familiar to me because it has all the wordstar keybindings. It also works quite well with mutt and slrn. It is apt-gettable, BTW and it has some pretty nice configuration options which ar

Re: Linux and wireless pcmcia

2001-07-20 Thread Michael Perry
s were for 2.2.x only; but the other drivers should be for both. You may want to cruise the pcmcia_cs forums on wireless at sourceforge as well. Now I use a 11mb wavelan card in my ibm thinkpad and I purchased a residential gateway instead. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt Question

2001-07-19 Thread Michael Perry
ianread The mbox-hook moves the read mail to another folder. folder-hook /home/mperry/mail/spam 'push D~r>10d!~F\n' folder-hook /home/mperry/oldmail/debianread 'push D~r>30d!~F\n' The folder-hook deletes messages older than 30 days. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how-to configure a printer on my potato

2001-07-18 Thread Michael Perry
printing resource is www.linuxprinting.org. Gives a good rundown of all the different printing methods and what they do, how to set them up, etc. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Folders in Mutt

2001-07-18 Thread Michael Perry
s by. One can do all of the above with a variable set of folder-hooks and mbox-hook files. A good resource for muttrc's and mutt in general is www.mutt.org and check out folks' different muttrc files. Another good one is www.dotfile.org I believe. It contains various and sundry dotfiles for preview or download. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

status of debian user digest?

2001-06-18 Thread Michael Perry
versions will start working again? Last time they went down, I was pretty busy getting all the digests that I had missed. Made for nice reading but I ended up getting perhaps 30 digests or so that I was owed. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]

possible cause of StarOffice problems

2001-04-12 Thread Michael Perry
use. Sharefont is a shareware font utility which you end up paying a registration fee for after use while freefont packages fonts which are free. If you are using StarOffice, you may want to check to see if you have sharefont installed. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

upgrading X to 4.0.2

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Perry
post-installation problem. I am using a Diamond Viper 770d card with 32mb of memory. Now I am using Xi accelerated 5.03. They are quite good but only 2d. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Help!

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Perry
Quoting will trillich on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:15:06PM -0600: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:59:17AM -0800, Michael Perry wrote: > > I have been trying to subscribe to debian-user or debian-user-digest and > > while I get a response from the list software, I get no email from the

Help!

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Perry
maintainer but have heard nothing back for a few weeks. Is there an issue with the debian-user list now? I really would like to get either digest or regular email from the list. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Xfree86 4.0.1 access rights

2000-11-09 Thread Michael Perry
I need to run xhost + on the new vc that win4lin wants to start in? I also get a bit of screen blanking when I have two concurrent X sessions running that never happened with Xfree 3.3.6. I have used the xset commands to stop this in Xfree86 3.3.6 but it seems to have no real affect in X4. -

help with some compile errors

2000-10-31 Thread Michael Perry
s this as well. I have helixcode gnome installed. When I do a whereis glib, I get: glib: /usr/lib/glib /usr/include/glib.h Anybody shed any enlightenment on this? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

wmaker 0.62 deb package?

2000-06-30 Thread Michael Perry
Anbyody made a deb package for windowmaker 0.62? I noticed its been out awhile but the www.debian.org stuff does not show it whatsoever. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

success with helixcode on potato; thanks

2000-06-04 Thread Michael Perry
which I want to try next with. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

apt-get new helixcode gnome

2000-06-04 Thread Michael Perry
Depends: grip but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Has anyone upgraded gnome using the manual information posted on the helixcode website? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Moving selected file systems to new hard disk

2000-03-04 Thread Michael Perry
drive to /dev/sdb. I would definitely like to get /home there since it seems to grow quite quickly. If /usr could move also, that would be cool. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

problems with gnome-card-games and libguile6

2000-02-21 Thread Michael Perry
rying to fix dependencies. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

slink to potato?

2000-01-15 Thread Michael Perry
! -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

palm pilot vs visor

1999-12-26 Thread Michael Perry
speed and program enhancements which I enjoy like playing MP3's and voice recording. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

eterm 0810 and backgrounds

1999-11-24 Thread Michael Perry
image file I have grown to love. This would be eterm 0810 by definition, I think. Has anyone used this on a slinkato system and kept the backgrounds? -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-21 Thread Michael Perry
there is a file which sets the VCs. But now I only get two with X showing up on the second. Clues or ideas greatly appreciated. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

mutt 1.0i

1999-11-14 Thread Michael Perry
ystem Muttrc at /etc/Muttrc but I cannot find where mutt stores these values when I have no global file. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

time and again

1999-11-09 Thread Michael Perry
fine with cmos set to UTC. Since I cannot seem to master the UTC in cmos issue, is there a way to make ntptime a little more forgiving when there is no network connection? I live in California so its nice to have the system manage PST/PDT changes. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

hwclock, date, and utc

1999-11-02 Thread Michael Perry
set the system date but it does not stick through a reboot. I have changed the utc setting in /etc/default/rcS also as suggested in that file. The laptop is a potato system. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

problems with sendmail on new potato laptop

1999-10-19 Thread Michael Perry
the potato laptop from hand after installing a base system from floppy diskettes and a nfs mount. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

duplicate call for net-pf-1

1999-10-09 Thread Michael Perry
tried searching the debian mail archives but can find no mention of this module. Its not in /lib/modules/2.2.10/net either. Thanks. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Network Printing PRoblems

1999-10-07 Thread Michael Perry
psonly600 driver. -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -